TRUE WEST
Thursday, Sep 18, 2008 7:30 PM
TRUE WEST
True West is one of Sam Shepard's funniest plays, as well as one of his most brutal.
Austin is a stable, successful Hollywood screenwriter, Lee his menacing vagabond brother, and True West is the story of their attempt to trade lives.
Their tragicomic quest to change identity ends in a stalemate, but along the way this Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes gleeful potshots at Hollywood, the myth of the frontier, and the escape fantasies that drive the American imagination.